Keyword: ironyhttp://www.freerepublic.com/tag/irony/
en-usSat, 11 Jul 2015 00:01:17 GMTFocus Forum15Former President Obamahttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3310351/posts
If they can do it, so can we ...selfhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3310351/posts#commentSat, 11 Jul 2015 00:01:17 GMTLaw enforcement flock to Waco for gang conferencehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3301994/posts
MCLENNAN COUNTY - Law enforcement officials from across the country met at McLennan Community College for four days for a private conference about policing the growth of motorcycle gangs. The conference, put on by the Midwest Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Investigators Association out of St. Louis, MO, was scheduled before the Twin Peaks shooting May 17 after investigators saw rising tensions between motorcycle gangs on the rise in Central Texas. &#x22;We do a considerable amount of talking about these confederations and coalitions... and try to make them understand a little bit the motives behind these is other than what they advertise,&#x22;...KXXV-TVhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3301994/posts#commentFri, 19 Jun 2015 17:00:17 GMTTSA hearing interrupted by bomb threathttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3298531/posts
A Senate hearing about the Transportation Security Administration&#x92;s recent failure to identify prohibited weapons in security tests at airports across the country was interrupted on Tuesday by a bomb threat. Lawmakers on the Senate Homeland Security Committee were getting their first chance to question officials about the findings of the TSA report, documented a series of undercover sting operations in which agents tried to pass through security with prohibited items; much of its findings remain classified. The panel&#x92;s chairman interrupted testimony to announce the floor of the Senate Dirksen Office Building where the TSA hearing was being held in was...The Hillhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3298531/posts#commentTue, 9 Jun 2015 19:59:46 GMTEx-CFO Who Slammed Chick-fil-A Lives on Food Stamps (Does Chik-fil-A Accept foodstamps?)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3273590/posts
Things haven&#x27;t gone too well for the former CFO who criticized Chick-fil-A in a video he posted on YouTube. Unable to find lasting work, 37-year-old Adam Smith is living on food stamps with his wife and four kids in the RV they call home, he tells ABC News. &#x22;I think people are scared,&#x22; Smith says of potential employers. &#x22;I think people are scared that it could happen again.&#x22; Back in the summer of 2012, as thousands of people were opposing Chick-fil-A&#x27;s stance on gays, Smith rolled into a Chick-fil-A drive-thru for a free glass of water and slammed the female...Newser.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3273590/posts#commentSun, 29 Mar 2015 22:15:13 GMTIrony knows bounds: Black Crime Claims Life of Apologist for Black Crimehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3233237/posts
David Ruenzel knew, better than most, about the white privilege that killed him. As a writer for the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of this favorite topics was rooting out racism. And how white racism is permanent. White racism is everywhere. And white racism explains everything. This mantra of the Critical Race Theory and the Southern Poverty Law Center applied to all white people because, even if they were not personally cracking the whips, or breaking the skulls, white people benefitted from a racist system that did all that &#x97; and a lot more. Ruenzel was writing about white privilege...am thinkerhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3233237/posts#commentWed, 3 Dec 2014 13:52:42 GMTThe most accurate photo of the UN ever takenhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3224918/posts
Intentional or not, some photographer has capture one of the greatest truths of our time... CRASHRhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3224918/posts#commentSat, 8 Nov 2014 20:16:47 GMTAfter Losing Phony War on Women, Planned Parenthood Will Target African-Americanshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3223533/posts
As Planned Parenthood&#x92;s phony war on women mantra gets aborted we watched as the map turn red in last night&#x92;s election. Today, Planned Parenthood appears to be placing their future election hopes in women of color and young women. Planned Parenthood lobbied heavily for many pro-abortion candidates in 2014 who lost by a landslide. Candidates like North Carolina Senate hopeful Kay Hagan who Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood called their number one priority. Wendy Davis in Texas nick-named &#x93;Abortion Barbie&#x94; for her filibuster of a late term abortion ban in the state, also fell hard after Planned Parenthood flooded...Life Newshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3223533/posts#commentWed, 5 Nov 2014 15:58:50 GMTU.S. tax dollars pay for U.S. mosque security upgradeshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3211264/posts
A recent announcement from the Islamic Society of Baltimore (ISB) / Masjid Al-Rahmah advised that it will be receiving a grant from the Nonprofit Security Grant Program administered through the Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA): ISB will be receiving $74,675.00 which will go towards upgrading, enhancing and adding to our security infrastructure. Over the next several months you will see contractors on-site conducting these security enhancements. The Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) is nationwide and overseen by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Part of DHS&#x92;s Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI), it has been in effect since 2005. To...Cultural Jihadhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3211264/posts#commentSat, 4 Oct 2014 16:15:35 GMTPA Continuing with Efforts to Join International Criminal Courthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3189375/posts
The Palestinian Authority (PA) is continuing its efforts to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Ma&#x92;an news agency reported on Tuesday. According to the report, the PA&#x92;s Foreign Affairs Minister, Riyad al-Maliki, met with ICC officials to discuss the Israeli operation in Gaza. During his visit, Al-Maliki inquired about the legal procedures necessary for the PA to join the ICC and sign the Rome Statute in order to take action against possible Israeli war crimes in Gaza, according to the report. Al-Maliki said he would consult members of the Palestinian Authority government on the matter after his visit. He...Arutz Shevahttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3189375/posts#commentTue, 5 Aug 2014 22:51:55 GMTArmed Resistance in the Civil Rights Movement: Charles Cobb &#x26; Danielle McGuire on Forgotten Historyhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3167954/posts
Cobb, author of This Nonviolent Stuff&#x27;ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible, and Danielle McGuire, a historian at Wayne State University, discuss the fundamental role of armed resistance in the civil rights movement.**********On his first visit to Martin Luther King Jr.&#x92;s house in Montgomery, Alabama, the journalist William Worthy began to sink into an armchair. He snapped up again when nonviolent activist Bayard Rustin yelled, &#x93;Bill, wait, wait! Couple of guns on that chair!&#x94; Worthy looked behind him and saw two loaded pistols nestled on the cushion. &#x93;Just for self-defense,&#x94; King said. In his new...The American Prospecthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3167954/posts#commentSun, 15 Jun 2014 14:23:18 GMTThe Unbearable Whiteness of the American Lefthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3149328/posts
From education to gun control, progressive movements need to do a better job empowering the people whose interests they claim to serve.At a panel titled &#x93;Grassroots Organizing&#x94; at the Network for Public Education conference in Austin in March, an audience member asked the all-white panel for its definition of &#x93;grassroots.&#x94; The conference had been called to &#x93;give voice to those opposing privatization, school closings, and high-stakes testing.&#x94; As the questioner pointed out, those disproportionately affected by these developments are poor and minority communities. Chicago, for example, a city that is one-third white, has a public school system in which 90...The Nationhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3149328/posts#commentSun, 27 Apr 2014 21:10:26 GMTSenator Giving Talk About Train Safety Nearly Hit By Oncoming Ironyhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3146944/posts
Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal narrowly avoided getting hit by a train Friday during a press conference about why it&#x92;s important to keep yourself safe around trains. The politician was standing on the platform of a Metro-North station in Milford, Conn., while the town&#x92;s mayor, Ben Blake, spoke about commuter safety.Timehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3146944/posts#commentMon, 21 Apr 2014 17:14:51 GMTBad marketing move: Planned Parenthood sells baby onesieshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3127275/posts
In a remarkably baffling move, Planned Parenthood is selling baby onesies in its online Marketplace. The abortion giant writes: Care for your little one in this adorable 100% combed ringspun cotton onesie. Featuring our tagline, Care. No matter what, in an adorable heart design, this onesie is designed to handle everyday knock around. Well, for starters, &#x93;everyday knock around&#x94; doesn&#x92;t exactly describe how a caring parent should treat an infant. (Keep in mind that these onesies are sold in sizes as small as newborn.) But I suppose the idea of &#x93;knocking around&#x94; a kid shouldn&#x92;t sound that foreign coming from...Live Action Newshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3127275/posts#commentWed, 26 Feb 2014 18:42:11 GMTSolar Cells Linked to Greenhouse Gases Over 23,000 Times Worse than CO2 (Warmists very silent)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3125159/posts
BERKELEY, Calif., June 4, 2012 &#x96; Solar cells do not offset greenhouse gases or curb fossil fuel use in the United States according to a new environmental book, Green Illusions (June 2012, University of Nebraska Press), written by University of California &#x96; Berkeley visiting scholar Ozzie Zehner. Green Illusions explains how the solar industry has grown to become one of the leading emitters of hexafluoroethane (C2F6), nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6). These three potent greenhouse gases, used by solar cell fabricators, make carbon dioxide (CO2) seem harmless. Hexafluoroethane has a global warming potential that is 12,000 times higher...E-Releasehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3125159/posts#commentThu, 20 Feb 2014 19:37:51 GMTID&#x27;s required to attend NAACP rally to protest voter ID requirementshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3121043/posts
Call the irony police! The North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP is holding a rally to protest that state&#x27;s new voter identification law, but participants are being advised to bring photo identification. Aurelius of Pundit Press discovered the advisory and comments: In a flier entitled &#x22;Important Dos and Don&#x27;ts for Marchers!!!,&#x22; the NAACP state at the top that all protesters conduct themselves &#x22;in accordance with the historic custom of the Civil Rights Movement.&#x22; They should also listen to their &#x22;marshals at all times&#x22; and follow the &#x22;Dos&#x22; and &#x22;Don&#x27;ts&#x22; underneath the opening paragraph.Some of the Dos are sensible for...American Thinkerhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3121043/posts#commentSun, 9 Feb 2014 19:31:47 GMTFederal Gov&#x27;t Closes Due to Threat of Snowhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3113940/posts
Federal Gov&#x27;t Closes Due to Threat of Snow Why? Because the forecast calls for snow. (Currently there is no snow falling or on the ground.)Weekly Standardhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3113940/posts#commentTue, 21 Jan 2014 15:12:48 GMTFemale Marine Pullup Failure Doesn&#x92;t Mean Women Aren&#x92;t Stronghttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3108374/posts
More than half of female Marines in boot camp can&#x27;t do three pullups, the minimum standard that was supposed to take effect with the new year, prompting the Marine Corps to delay the requirement, part of the process of equalizing physical standards to integrate women into combat jobs. The delay rekindled sharp debate in the military on the question of whether women have the physical strength for some military jobs, as service branches move toward opening thousands of combat roles to them in 2016. Beginning this week, all female Marines were supposed to be able to do at least three...The Federalisthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3108374/posts#commentSat, 4 Jan 2014 22:41:29 GMTGlobal Irony - Warming theory gets trapped in Antactic ice.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3107897/posts
Chinese choppers on Thursday evacuated 52 passengers who had been marooned near the South Pole since Christmas Eve aboard the Russian science vessel MS Akademik Shokalsky. It will take far more than helicopters, however, to salvage the theory of so-called &#x93;global warming.&#x94; It remains trapped in Antarctic ice. &#x93;We&#x92;re stuck in our own experiment,&#x94; said Chris Turney, a professor of climate change at Australia&#x92;s University of New South Wales. The voyage&#x92;s leader was no mere guide, and his fellow travelers were not just tourists. While news accounts portrayed these people as star-crossed adventurers, the frustrated Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) was...National Review Onlinehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3107897/posts#commentFri, 3 Jan 2014 16:00:04 GMTDoing the Green Thing (vanity)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3107891/posts
BEING GREEN! Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren&#x27;t good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, &#x22;We didn&#x27;t have this &#x27;green thing&#x27; back in my earlier days.&#x22; The young clerk responded, &#x22;That&#x27;s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations. She was right - our generation didn&#x27;t have the &#x27;green thing&#x27; in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent...emailhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3107891/posts#commentFri, 3 Jan 2014 15:52:20 GMTIrony, Thy Name is Barry Sotero (and Other Ironies of Algore, Life)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3107471/posts
Oh! and BTW. Is that not the most arrogant, smug, pompous looking face you ever wanted to slap silly? (Covering Your Back Just in Case The NSA is Snopping Around.) Oh, and speaking of Algore, let me introduce someone who had he survived would have been the biggest supporter of Algore&#x27;s running joke on Global Warming, someone who had his very own Enviro&#x22;Mental&#x22; Planet Earth Catastrophe Scenario of Destruction but never knew how to monetize it, having popularized, prostelyized a similar sounding catchy scheme in which to inject the fear of the End of Days as his very own...http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3107471/posts#commentThu, 2 Jan 2014 13:18:21 GMTDesmond Tutu has house burgled while giving Nelson Mandela tributehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3101688/posts
Desmond Tutu&#x27;s house was burgled on the day he gave a speech at his friend Nelson Mandela&#x27;s memorial service, police said.London Evening Standardhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3101688/posts#commentSat, 14 Dec 2013 09:45:50 GMTObamaCare mandate could lead Washington grocery workers to picket linehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3077927/posts
Some 30,000 grocery store workers in the state of Washington could be walking picket lines as soon as next week, in what some say is a direct result of ObamaCare. Big supermarket chains including Safeway, QFC, Albertsons and Fred Meyer are represented by Allied Employers in contract negotiations with the United Food and Commercial Workers and Teamsters. One of the employers&#x27; new proposals is to provide healthcare only to employees who work 30 or more hours per week, a minimum requirement under ObamaCare. &#x93;As with all employers, the Affordable Care Act will impact how we deliver health benefits to our...Fox Newshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3077927/posts#commentSat, 12 Oct 2013 02:23:52 GMTVideo: Student stopped from distributing Constitutions on Constitution Dayhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3069184/posts
When I first heard about this video, I thought perhaps this took place at a high school, where free-speech restrictions sometimes can apply. Not so, though, and FIRE&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s involvement makes that clear anyway. A student at Modesto Junior College in California decided to celebrate Constitution Day by handing out copies of a dangerously radical document, which was, er &#xE2;&#x80;&#xA6; the Constitution of the United States of America. You know, the one that includes the pesky prohibition against infringing on free speech.Readers can guess where this goes from there: This gets even more Orwellian than one might assume. After telling the...Hotairhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3069184/posts#commentFri, 20 Sep 2013 16:48:45 GMTThe hipster renewalism of Hall &#x26; Oateshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3053773/posts
Hall &#x26; Oates has never won a Grammy but the No. 1 selling duo of all time has won something else: hipster respect. Putting aside those shoulder pads for a moment, Daryl Hall and John Oates looked like hand-picked opposites: The lanky blond Hall called himself the &#x22;more flamboyant&#x22; one, while the shorter dark-haired Oates &#x97; with his distinctive &#x27;stache &#x97; embraced his role as &#x22;worker bee.&#x22; But their union came from no design, except by the music gods: The Temple University students met in an elevator, both trying to duck a gunfight that had broken out at the Adelphi...yahoo.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3053773/posts#commentMon, 12 Aug 2013 18:08:14 GMTFlat-headed cat, the world&#x27;s least known feline, is now endangeredhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2477977/posts
If you believe the myth that all cats hate getting wet, then you&#x27;ve yet to meet the flat-headed cat. With webbed feet and a streamlined head perfectly adapted for speed in the water, these strange felines not only like the water, they practically live in it. They are also recognized as the world&#x27;s least known feline. And unfortunately, they may remain mysterious. According to National Geographic, a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE has indicated that the flat-headed cat&#x27;s habitat is rapidly being transformed into vast biofuel plantations. Native to the swampy peat forests of Thailand, Malaysia and...mnnhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2477977/posts#commentTue, 23 Mar 2010 19:15:57 GMT